Abingdon United Football Club, Oxfordshire Thursday, 17th & Friday, 18th July 2025 Mark Cunningham and his team put on another successful charity prog rock festival at the Northcourt Music Venue at the Abingdon United Football Club in Oxfordshire – all…
View More Prog For Peart: Pre-Festival Party & Day One
Blues may appear to be an out of place genre to be reviewed on a progressive music site, but here is the thing, Blues and in particular electric Blues is one of the building blocks for modern music as we…
View More Various Artists – Rollin’ And Tumblin’: American Electric Blues 1965-1971 (3CD Boxset)
Featured artists: Doris Brendel & Lee Dunham | Jocelyn Pettit & Ellen Gira | This Winter Machine | Úna Quinn | Raphael Weinroth-Browne Five bite-sized reviews taking a snapshot of just some of the albums and EPs to land at…
View More A Different Aspect #97
The Seattle-based progressive/psychedelic rock band, Moon Letters, are back with their excellent third album, This Dark Earth. Following on from their last album, 2022’s Thank You From The Future, which I reviewed for The Progressive Aspect at the time, it…
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There’s nothing quite like discovering new music to stop you in your tracks – something with such a distinctive sound and charismatic presence you can’t help but keep listening, enthralled, fascinated. This is exactly what happened to me with Malabriega’s…
View More Malabriega – Frippada Andaluza
2022 was a seminal year for the current version of Tangerine Dream. They released a ‘new’ album, Raum, their second studio album since the death of founding member Edgar Froese in 2015. It was created with access to Froese’s Cubase…
View More Tangerine Dream – From Virgin To Quantum Years: Coventry Cathedral 22
It has been 5 years since the London-based band, The Wood Demons, released their acclaimed Angels of Peckham Rye album, and 4 years since I reviewed it for the Progressive Aspect, following a refreshingly vibrant set at the first Prog…
View More The Wood Demons – In Rabbits & Corners
Ever since the Beatles announced “I want to hold your hand”, power pop has had a significant grip on popular music. That influence has waxed and waned throughout the years, but never has it disappeared. The branding may have changed…
View More Various Artists – I Wanna Be A Teen Again: American Power Pop 1980 – 1989
I think that, having been in the music business since 1958, released almost 50 studio albums, 7 live albums, along numerous compilation albums, Sir George Ivan ‘Van’ Morrison knows how to make music. Yet, despite attempts to make collaboration albums…
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Norwegian jazz prog stalwarts Pymlico return with their eighth album, Core, their first for three years. Unusually for Pymlico, the band’s line up is unchanged from 2022’s Supermassive. It seems that they believe they have hit upon a particularly rewarding…
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